BREAKING: Court of Appeal rules that UK surveillance regime violates privacy rights. liberty-human-rights.org.uk/news/press-rel…
Court rules that the laws wrongfully "permitted access to retained data, where the objective pursued by that access was not restricted solely to fighting serious crime, or where access was not subject to prior review by a court or an independent administrative authority.”
Holds for another day whether the regime is "general and indiscriminate," whether the national security rationale is too broad, and whether people are entitled to notice when their data is retained or accessed.
will pursue all those remaining questions in its ongoing legal challenge to to #SnoopersCharter, which will have an initial hearing in February
For now, though, this is a major step forward in reining in the UK's overbroad, invasive surveillance regime and striking a better balance between government power and individual privacy.
You can read the whole judgment here: liberty-human-rights.org.uk/sites/default/…
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